Providing quality of forming professional competences of economists in the modern Ukrainian university in conditions of euro integration

This article is the result of the scientific study on identifying areas for improving the quality of the formation of professional competencies of economists in the modern Ukrainian university in conditions of European integration. According to the existing Ukrainian legislation, the quality of education is formed by the external system supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MESU) and the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and the internal system that is formed by each institution of higher education independently. The European integration trend of Ukrainian economy requires greater autonomy of universities to respond more quickly to the demand for specialists on the labor market. External assessment of the quality of education in the form of the annual ratings of institutions of higher education affects the choice of entrants and often their parents in choosing an institution for study. Very often the applicants for choosing a higher education establishment for further study rely on the information found on social networks. When forming the internal system of education quality assurance in an institution of higher education it is necessary to take care of the true information about the university in various sources of information. The matrix of the SWOT analysis of the system of formation of professional competencies of bachelors and master’s in economics has revealed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of the current quality assurance system in Ukrainian higher education establishments. The internal quality assurance system of education consists of the following subsystems: monitoring compliance of lecturers' professional training with the requirements of the MESU; monitoring the quality of teaching disciplines; monitoring of acquired competencies by students; monitoring of conformity of professional competencies, which are laid down in educational-professional and educational-scientific programs, with the realities of the labor market; strategic planning of the development of the university's system of education quality assurance. For subsystems of the internal level of the education quality assurance system, appropriate modern tools have been selected that make it possible to introduce a qualitative dimension. Promising ways to improve the quality of education in Ukrainian universities are the practice-oriented student learning, the relationship with employers and the alignment of the content of educational and professional programs with practitioners as well as more active engagement of students in doing research during their study at the university